When students connect math to real world situations, they realize that math makes sense and is useful in their everyday lives.

These free multiplication games are designed to offer multiplication fact practice in a fun and engaging format!

Developing part/whole thinking helps students work flexibly with numbers as they learn all the ways numbers can be composed and decomposed.

We switched from Singapore Math to Math Mammoth and It's been a fantastic fit for all 4 of my children, 1st-6th grades.

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Wow, the beginning of the school year is just flying by! I can't believe it's almost time for the first progress reports to go home already. Crazy! We're chugging along in math and finally hitting out stride with multiplication. Just like in second grade, I prefer to do most of our math on the rug where I model everything on my easel and have the kids work in their math journals as they follow along. I like to use the gradual release model for every single lesson. It keeps me on track and the kids like the structure.They are never confused about what to do. I find it makes my planning easier too! Here is a poster I made that reminds everyone of their role as we work through our problems. If I need to remind someone, I just point out which step we're on. If you aren't using gradual release for instruction, I highly recommend that you try it at least a few times. I promise you'll love the results! It's the way I've always taught math but only discovered that it has a name last year. So, besides doing math on the rug every day, I also do math centers while I meet with groups. Right now we are working on arrays and relating them to repeated addition and multiplication. As an opening activity, I gave each table group a large pile of colored counters and said we were going to have a race to see who could count them the fastest. There was only one rule: First they had to put the counters into equal groups. It was so much fun watching them race to count those counters! Not surprisingly, it was the table that made groups of 10 who won the race. My centers for multiplication this week and last were super easy to plan thanks to my blogger friend Arisbeth Rossi. She runs Sailing Into Second (awesome blog, check it out!) and generously sent me her Multiplication and Division Unit to check out. It's packed full of useful stuff!! Two of the activities we did most recently are the multiplication bubble map and an even/odd product sort... I really love the bubble map because it gets the kids thinking about what they already know. It builds their confidence as you dive into multiplication. I had my students take their completed graphic organizers home to explain to their parents. If they brought it back signed, they got a little treat. The even/odd product sort was a great way to revisit second grade skill while working on multiplication. My kids really needed a review and this fit the bill perfectly! Since we are just starting on multiplication, I had them work with partners to solve each problem and then sort them. Another piece of Arisbeth's unit that I really like is the multiplication and division booklets. There's a nice little checklist on the front to check off each set of facts as the student learns them. My students are keeping theirs in their math folder to work on whenever they have time. They bring it to math group if they want me to check a page off. There is so much more in the unit that I haven't even gotten to yet... task cards, Spin and Solve games (which I'm using in centers next week), posters, more graphic organizers, and word problem strips. I loooove the strips because they are exactly what I use for homework. Every day my students glue a new problem into their homework journals. The strips in Arisbeth's pack will work perfectly! If you want to check out the rest of this awesome unit, visit her store by clicking on the cover picture below... Another resource that you absolutely must see is the Engage NY website. You can download complete lessons for the entire year of math. It's incredible! Luckily, the scope and sequence closely matches what we do here in Florida. When I was out sick one day this week, I was able to print out a detailed lesson plan for my sub that she could follow word-for-word. This site has every grade level, pre-k through 12, for both math and language arts. Wow! Florida has nothing like this for their teachers. An InLinkz Link-up

This set of touch math addition timed tests (0 to 12) was created for students to use the touch math skip counting strategy with their math facts.

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When students connect math to real world situations, they realize that math makes sense and is useful in their everyday lives.

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Formative Assessments How will we know they are learning? Formative vs. Summative Formative assessments are assessments to inform instruction (for learning), while summative assessments are assessments of learning. Why should we use Formative Assessments? Only by knowing where each student is on their learning path can we truly differentiate their instruction. Options of Formative Assessment: *Individual Dry-Erase Boards/Digital Whiteboards (on iPads) Digital Whiteboards Educreations *Self-Assessment (Ex. Stoplight/Show Me Wallet) *Quick Writes Give students two or three minutes to reflect on and summarize their learning. *Why am I wrong? Give an incorrect answer or misconception. Students write why the answer is wrong. *Index Card Responses (Respond to question about the lesson) *Headline - write a headline to describe a key understanding from class. *Who, What, Where, When, Why, & How? - Write about what they learned in the lesson. *ABC Summaries - Give each child a letter (skip the difficult letters). Students select a word starting with that letter that is related to the lesson. *S-O-S Summary *3-2-1 Summarizer *Exit/Admit slips Here is a great video using an Admit Slip Strategy called - My Favorite No *Observation *Anecdotal Notes (“+” or “-”) Did they understand or not? What additional support or differentiation do they need? *Running Records *Checklists/Rubrics *Look and Listen (Eavesdropping on groups) *Hand Signals Ask students to display a designated hand signal to indicate their understanding of a specific concept, principle or process. *Fist-to-Five *Thumbs Up *1-2-3 Show me (1 = know very little, 2 understand well, 3 = I could teach it to someone else) Hint: Keep fingers or thumb in front of chest. *Pop-Quizzes (not graded) Quizzes assess students for factual information, concepts and discrete skill. There is usually a single best answer. Some quiz examples are: *Multiple Choice *True/False *Short Answer *Matching *Short/Extended Response Formative Assessments Using Technology: Click on the Assessment for video tutorials & suggested ideas. *Google Forms *Kahoot! *Nearpod *Padlet *Plickers *Geddit *Testmoz *StrawPollMe *Socrative

When my daughter was in fourth grade, I realized that she has dyscalculia. To help her overcome her struggle, I had to learn a new way to teach math, one day at a time.

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I took the character cam out on a field trip and look at all of the engaging anchor charts we spotted: Anchor charts make me happy!

One of my favorite times of the day is math. I adore the concrete to abstract discovery that I see in my students year after year. The manipulatives oh the manipulatives. My first year as a teacher

As in dyslexia, dyscalculia manifests differently in different kids.Some kids have trouble making sense of numbers and math concepts. Other kids with dyscalculia can’t grasp basic number concepts. Let's work on understanding dyscalculia.

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When students connect math to real world situations, they realize that math makes sense and is useful in their everyday lives.

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